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To help transition Japan to a peace promoting post-carbon country while enjoying every step of the process.僕のビジョンは、祖国日本で、平和文化を育みポストカーボン（Post-Carbon) 社会を促進してゆく事です。化石燃料や原子力に頼らず、他国の資源を取らない、自給自足な国へのトランジションを実現させてゆきたいです。

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my view on "what will?" is that that we need to think very hard about what is possible for individuals to do. can we take down the system? the protesters in iran and syria just get shot. we need to look at history and think hard. what can work. what IS actually bigger than us. capitalism seems bigger than us. we have to study and read and discuss with each other with a HARD thinking process, ready to reject fanciful dreams. then at the same time we have to try stuff that makes sense. part of it is not participating even with our minds in the bank bailouts. i personally think we need to take another look at the labor union as an engine of change. work slow downs. wildcat strikes. students protests. the lyrics of 'solidarity forever' read, "what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?" sure there's a critique possible of that too but i think the left has gotten too individual focussed. but also, i think my friend amemiya's idea is important: just say it's GOOD ENOUGH just as it is. the house, the life, the food, don't buy another thing. not 'buy nothing day' but buy nothing month or year. those are my thoughts now

I think right now it won't be a BIG we, but a small we. Really, changing your personal lifestyle will not do anything to stop ecocide. Even if you could organize a million people to use fewer resources, those resources would just be freed to be used by someone else. To stop consumption by voluntary action at the consumer end, you would have to organize every consumer in the world.

I think we all thought that in a post Dai-ichi Japan we'd see some action in the streets. But look around - nothing. That's the reality. So how do we ditch industrial nuclear electric culture here in Japan ? You might think the big obstacle is politicians or corporate greed or finding the alternative. I think the big obstacle is cultural inertia: very few people living in Japan want to transition from all-you-can-eat nuclear electricity, to stairs and hand-held fans and woodstoves. Again, that's the reality. You might think that the ongoing collapse of the oil/growth economy will take care of this, but remember the Vikings in Greenland in Jared Diamond’s Collapse ? They chose to die of starvation rather than eat fish.

Since March 11th and all that we’ve seen come of the Daiichi Nuke power plant, I’m tending to think that many industrialized people living in Japan would rather die by the loaded gun than learn a whole new way of living. So I think the best strategy is to stay out of the way of the stubborn people, and try to organize the adaptable people and an Ark of a Landbase.

By this I mean: A patchwork of people - a fellowship - who steward land and are interested in 400-1000 years into the future.

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A "half", as they call us in Japan, who grew up in metropolis and rural Japan, Hawaii, Santa Cruz CA, Central America, and now Orcas Island WA. Taking a stroll through the path of permaculture, mindfulness, and love. Looking for more like-minded people in Japan or people interested in transforming Japan...
百姓／平和活動家／パーマカルチャー・デザイナーのヒヨコです。ブロックス・パーマカルチャー・ホームステッド（ワシントン州のオーカス島）で弟子入り生活をしていましたが、今は東京で平和と愛を育む活動をしています。先生、仲間、プロジェクト、土地を捜しています！